Dr. Francis W. James received this diploma from the University of Nashville. It was authorized by John Berrien Lindsley, Dean of the Medical Faculty. The accompanying envelope has an image of the university. Various cards related to Dr. James's...

Advertisement for a lecture by three-term governor Bob Taylor to be held at the Opera House. A publicity photo of Taylor occupies most of the space, with the notation that the event is produced under the exclusive direction of the Rice Bureau.

Advertisement for lecture and demonstrations by Dr. J. M. Trotter, President of the Virginia Emigration and Manufacturing Association, on a plan to buy land and form joint stock companies in order to build factories in the southern United States....

Handwritten entry for the date, covering parts of one page of this small volume representing the Civil War diary of Rachel Carter Craighead. Craighead relates the surrender of Island No. 10 to Federal forces and the fact that Fort Pillow was then...